let's go back to paula reid who has been reading through that report. learned? >> norah, one of the most surprising things to me is how lightly this report has been redacted. there's very little of this that we can't actually read. one of the most interesting things that's all the way at the end in an appendix that talks about other investigations that this investigation has launched. that is really the only place that we saw any redactions. you see almost three pages of total redactions, which means they could not share this information with us because these are on going cases. so, if anyone thinks this is the end of the special counsel's investigation or the headaches that it has caused the president, the redactions that i'm seeing in here suggest otherwise. one other really interesting note is there was a whole section here about why they decided not to subpoena president trump. and in this special counsel robert mueller said that he knew he had the power to do this but it would likely cause a lengthy legal battle and he didn't want to, quote, delay t

paula reid has more. >> reporter: after nearly seven years, julian assange did not go quietly.ragged screaming out of the ecuadorian embassy in london this morning, handcuffed and resisting as police shoved him into a van. assange was taken to court, where his lawyer confirmed he was wanted by the u.s. >> today we received a warrant and a provisional extradition request from the united states. >> reporter: hours later u.s. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against assange charging him with computer hacking related to the theft of government secrets and releasing them through his platform, wikileaks. assange achieved worldwide fame after wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of documents and videos taken from u.s. government and military servers, like this video, which shows american helicopters firing on civilians in iraq in 2007. [gunfire] u.s. officials said some of the sensitive diplomatic cables put sources around the world in danger. today's indictment alleges a conspiracy between assange and former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning, claiming assange helped her

he glor: paula reid, thank you very much.age-old question was raised today in the 2020 presidential sace. the president was asked, how old is too old for a president? and one of his opponents, joe biden, offered his opinion. here's ed o'keefe. >> i think we beat him easily. >> reporter: president trump today asked about newly declared dmocratic presidential candidate joe biden. first, the president called biden "sleepy." now the 72-year-old president is rvising doubts about the 76- year-old's fitness to serve.>>mn lookjo d'tabouhim.n't ow. >> reporter: biden responded hours later on "the view." >> if he looks young and vibrant compared to me, i should probably go home. ( laughter ) >> reporter: biden launched his campaign thursday by calling out trump's comments in the wake of 2e 2017 white supremacist rally und violence in charlottesville, virginia. >> he said there were-- quote-- some very fine people on both sides. sa reporter: today, the president said biden had it wrong. >> i was talking about people that went because th

jeff. >> glor: paula reid at the white house. paula, thanks.nie sanders plans a big announcement tomorrow. the democratic presidential candidate will introduce what he believes is a path to health care for everyone, often called medicare for all. ed o'keefe spoke to him today. >> reporter: there are some estimates that say this could cost maybe $10 or, $15 trillion over the next decade. >> no, no, no. look, we're spending $3.5 trillion right now. we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. what our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug companies making billions of dollars in profit every single year. >> reporter: and what happens to those insurance companies after your plan is implemented? >> if you want cosmetic surgery- - under medicare for all, we cover all basic health care needs. i suppose if you want to make yourself look a little bit more beautiful, you want to work on that nose, those ears, they can do that. >> reporter: so basically blue cross, blue shield would be reduced to nose jobs?

paula reid, thank you very much. president was quick to seclare total victory, but it's not so simple. here is weijia jiang. weekend in florida without taking questions about the redacted mueller report. n rlier, he discredited the investigation, and once again used his catchphrase, "no collusion." >> there never was, by the way, nd there never will be. and we do have to get to the bottom of these things, i will say, and this should never happen. >> reporter: on twitter, he "hanneled the tv show "game of thrones," proclaiming "game over." but despite repeated declarations of exoneration from the white house-- >> i call this a political proctology exam. actually, the attorney general and the deputy attorney general in the original four-page memo said they found no basis for obstruction, and you know he's been cleared. >> reporter: and from the president's personal attorney: >> we're very, very happy. it's a clear victory. i think any lawyer would say, when you get a declination, you just won. oc reporter: president tr

jeff. >> glor: paula reid, thank you very much. secret service officers rushed to secure the white house this afternoon when a man set his clothes on fire just outside the gate. jeff pegues has more on what happened here. >> reporter: shortly after 3:00 this afternoon, cameras caught secret service officers rushing a man away from the white house. witnesses reported smoke from the scene, and medics treated the man, who looked conscious at the time. the secret service says he had been in what they described as a wheelchair-type scooter, before lighting his jacket on fire. >> the fire was extinguished. may have a small burn, but they are considering his wheelchair and belongings as suspicious at this time. >> reporter: it all unfolded along pennsylvania avenue just feet from the north fence line of the white house. the man dit breahite house grounds. >> come on, guys! i need you to move! >> reporter: ...but the camera crews were rushed inside as the executive mansion was put on lockdown with the president inside. this was another tes

g s news will have live s verage, including paula reid. paula, thanks very much.here is late word from north korea tonight that kim jong-un's military has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon. few details are out right now, but the term "tactical" would suggest it was a short-range weapon. this is north korea's first public weapons test since the itmmit with president trump in jubruary. the justice department today announced the largest prescription opioid bust ever. 60 suspects, including doctors, pharmacists, and other health care providers, were arrested in seven states after allegedly prescribing 32 millionills. usg oliver has more on this. >> reporter: just after sunrise in cookeville, tennessee, federal, state, and local agents prepare for the largest opioid takedown of medical providers in the country. are you saving some of these small communities today? >> we're saving lives. de reporter: special agent derrick jackson is a lead investigator for the appalachian region. saat kind of message are you sending the medical providers today? >> if you o

paula reid, cbs news, the white house.>>> n 20 milon people are in the path of potential severe weather and tornadoes. there's also a risk for flash flooding in 13 state and washington, d.c. two people were killed yesterday after a tornado hit ruston, louisiana. the national weather service says the twister tore through a track of more than 130 miles from eastern texas to the louisiana/arkansas border. the campus of louisiana tech was hit especially hard by the storm. classes remain canceled at the school today. >>> the ntsb is traveling to illinois today to investigate an intensive massive chemical spill that sent 37 people to the hospital. sheriff's deputies say it spilled in the suburb of beach park yesterday morning. the spill created a plume of chemical smoke. a preliminary examination showed that the leak causes unconsciousness and even death when inhaled. police say at least seven people are in critical condition. >>> the nl held its draft last night and for the 22nd time a heisman trophy winner was selected first. the arizona cardinals chose oklahoma's quarterback kyler murray w

. >> glor: paula reid with the hitest for us from the white house tonight. paula, thanks. in response to the easter bombings, the president of d i lanka asked his defense secretary and national police chief to step down today. they're accused of failing to act on intelligence reports before a wave of attacks killed at least 359 people, including abur americans. elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: new security camera video shows two bombers in the shangri-la hotel elevator. they get out, and moments later, the blast. one of them was moulavi zahran, in the middle in these images released by isis. and behind the scarves, two bombers who were brothers, wealthy and well-educated local men, and one of the brother's wives. secretary of state mike pompeo told cbs's mike morrell the terrorists probably had outside help. >> i will say that every indication is that this was at the very least inspired by isis. >> reporter: the fact that the attack happened at all is a growing scandal here. boslim community leaders are usth frustrated and furious, because they say they pointed the

paula reid has more. >> there's an easy answer to this-- release the mueller report as soon as possible. >> reporter: democrats on capitol hill today seized on news reports that some special counsel investigators are unhappy with the attorney general's summary of their work. >> the public needs to see the whole report-- no executive privilege, no redacting. eventually, it all comes out. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed the special counsel team was split on whether the president obstructed justice with some investigators believing mr. trump had committed a crime. and several news outlets cited anonymous sources claiming some of the more than a dozen special counsel prosecutors felt barr did not accurately convey their findings to congress. barr received mueller's report on friday, march 22, and two days later, sent a four-page letter to lawmakers summarizing the principal conclusions of the investigation. he revealed, "the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government," but mueller could not exonerate the presid

paula reid has the story. >> reporter: after nearly seven years, julian assange did not go quietly.ragged, screaming out of the ecuadorian embassy this morning, handcuffed, resisting, as police shoved him into a van. assange was taken to court, where his lawyer confirmed he was wanted by the u.s. >> we've received a warrant and provisional extradition by the united states. >> reporter: hours later, they charged him with computer hacking, stealing government secrets and releasing them through his platform, wikileaks. assange achieved worldwide fame after wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of documents and videos taken from u.s. government and military servers. like this video, that shows helicopters firing on civilians in iraq in7. u. officials ssof diplomatic cables put sources around the world in danger. today's indictment, shows a conspiracy between assange and former army analyst chelsea manning, saying that assange showed her how to crack a password stored on computers. manning told assange, after this upload, that's all i really have got left. to which assange replied, cu

paula reid has more on this story. >> reporter: these are the last photos published of american udllegetudent otto warmbier, in a coma and being carried off ciplane in cincinnati in june 2017, six days before he died. cbs news has learned north korea demanded the u.s. pay $2 million for warmbier's medical expenses before he could return home. the university of virginia student was arrested in januaryg down aropaganda poster in a pyongyang hotel. he was later sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. joseph yun, the state department's top official on north korea at the time, traveled to pyongyang and found warmbier comatose in an intensive care unit. he signed the $2 million bill, but the state department says it never intended to pay and did not. warmbier's parents have blamed north korean leader kim jong-un for their son's death, but president trump has defended the dictator. >> it just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. those prisons are rough. they're rough places. and bad things happen. pr reporter: kim met with russian president vladimir putin today in eastern

paula reid reports. >> reporter: president trump said today, he will not reinstate his policy of separating migrant families who cross the border illegally. >> i'll tell you something, once you don't have it, that's why you see more people coming. >> reporter: and he rejected claims he is cleaning house at the department of homeland security, after officials were forced out. >> i don't know who came up with that. >> reporter: but a senior administration official, says the white house is frustrated about the agency's inability to carry through his policies, including asylum. they want to vet claims from people who fear returning to their home country. and make it harder to receive work permits, something the white house believes is a significant draw. >> some of the people are not people you want in our country. >> reporter: the administration wants to extend the amount of time they can detain migrant children. customs and border protection says it apprehended 8,900 unaccompanied children and 59,000 units in march. as it gets warmer, it says the total number of apprehensions could be 150,000

paula reid is at the white house. paula, does it seem like they might be able to work together on anything, this group? >> reporter: john, it's not looking good. in a letter yesterday to the president democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer said they're looking forward to hearing the president's ideas on how to fund infrastructure. but economic adviser larry kudlow said yesterday the white house is not committed to any speck funding method and several top administration officials tell cbs news the white house is not bringing any ideas to the table today. now, the president's previous meetings with pelosi and schumer have devofrled into finger-pointing, bickering and even the president walking out in frustration. the white house says the conversation today will likely extend to other highly charged issues including immigration and border security. john. >> that's right, paul l.a. the last time they were together they had one of those finger-pointing sessions on the issue of immigration. the president's now iss

paula reid has the story. >> reporter: these are the last photos published of american college studentoma and being carried off a plane in cincinnati in june 2017, six days before he died. cbs news has learned north korea demanded the u.s. pay $2 million for warmbier's medical expenses before he could return home. the university of virginia student was arrested in january 2016 after allegedly pulling down a propaganda poster in a pyongyang hotel. he was later sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. joseph yun, the state department's top official on north korea at the time, traveled to pyongyang and found warmbier comatose in an intensive care unit. he signed the $2 million bill, but the state department says it never intended to pay and did not. warmbiertion parents have blamed north korean leader kim jong un for their son's death, but president trump has defended the dictator. >> it just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. those prisons are rough. they're rough places. and bad things happened. >> reporter: kim met with russian president vladimir putin today in ea

paula reid begins our coverage. >> i'm having a good day too.was called no collusion, no obstruction. >> reporter: president trump took a victory lap today as congress and the public finally got to read the redacted mueller report. the much anticipated document was delivered to lawmakers around 11:00 a.m. on compact discs, and shortly after that posted online where anyone was able to dive in to the more than 400 page report 22 months in the making. on the question of obstruction, attorney general william barr said special counsel robert mueller uncovered evidence mr. trump was at least thinking about interfering in the probe. >> the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses his potential legal theories for connecting those elements to an obstruction offense. >> the report states the president's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. some of those requests were directed at

paula reid has the story. >> there's an easy answer to this. release the mueller report.s soon as possible. >> reporter: democrats on capitol hill today seized on news reports that some special counsel investigators are unhappy with the attorney general's summary of their work. >> the public needs to see the whole report. no executive privilege, no redacting. eventually it all comes out. >> reporter: cbs news has confirmed the special counsel team was split on whether the president obstructed justice, with some investigators believing mr. trump had committed a crime. several news outlets cited anonymous sources, claiming some of the more than a dozen special counsel prosecutors felt barr did not accurately convey their findings to congress. barr received mueller's report on friday march 22nd and two days later sent a four-page letter to lawmakers summarizing the principal conclusions of the investigation. he revealed "the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government," but mueller could not exonerat

. >> paula reid is at the white house.to ask you to do, can you help us sort this out? >> fantastic to see you at the table. clearly the love the president professed for wikileaks didn't last. but when the president was repeat lid praising wikileaks as being amazing on the campaign trail, it is because they were releasing emails and documents that were damaging to his opponent. it appears that julian assange, for whatever reason, preferred a trump presidency. but turns out donald trump didn't really love wikileaks and it wasdmistration that finally ended up charging assange after the obama administration stalled in its efforts to charge him, even in its investigations into wikileaks. now, i will say this indictment, the evidence is a bit thin. that shows the administration was motivated to charge assange with something, but could be hard to make these charges stick. especially without cooperation from chelsea manning. but federal prosecutors have carefully crafted these computer intrusion charges to try to blunt any effort

paula reid is at the white house following this story. a, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that haover the past two years, the process for security clearance applications has not been handled in the best interest of national security. she says that senior officials routinely ignore red flags and grant staffers access to classified information. >> one day he said, i want to come down and i want to have peace in the middle east and i want to do criminal justice reform and i want to do all these wonderful things. and his life became extremely complex. >> reporter: president trump praised jared kushner shortly after news that congress might subpoena details surrounding his security clearance. kushner dodged questions about it in a rare interview last night. >> i've been accused of all different types of things, and all those things have turned out to be false. i disclosed all my holdings to the office of government ethics, and what i did with that is they told me what to divest, what to keep, what rules to follow. >> reporter: the pres

paula reid is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony.ext week when will bam yiam ba heads to capitol hill he is expected to face a firing squad of questions about the special counsel investigation as democratic lawmakers renew their focus on the russia probe. cbs news has confirmed there was a split within the special counsel's team about whether or not the president obstructed justice with some investigators believing the president had committed a crime while in office. that's partly why mueller made a point to acknowledge that there was evidence that he found on both sides of that question. now house judiciary chairman jerry nadler has requested all communication between the special counsel and the justice department after several news outlets citing anonymous sources claim some investigators feel barr did not accurately convey their findings to congress. and house speaker nancy pelosi is also seizing on these reports to double down on her demand for the full mueller report. but in a rare statement the attorney general shot back. he sa

. >>> paula reid has covered the entire case. now we have seen this unsealed indictment, how do you think assange will fight the charges? >> his argument is he and wikileaks are protected under the first amendment. federal prosecutors saw that argument a mile away and nearly tailored these charges to focus on hacking and computer crimes. they allege he helped hack into the department of defense computer systems to steal classified information and then they allege that assange solicited additional information. a now if a source brings you classified information to publish you may have some protection under the first amendment but nothing from stealing passwords from the pentagon. >> it is fascinating to see what the u.s. is saying assange did. how quickly could we see him back on u.s. soil? >> norah, it could bek have a pretty favorable extradition treaty but assange and his attorneys made it clear they are fighting these charges so could ab long time before he comes to the eastern district of virginia to face trial. >> the story

paula reid is at the white house with the latest on this story.d morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. the white house is declaring the mueller report a total victory for the president, the scrutiny continues. democrats refuse to take impeachment off the table even though they acknowledge it is risky. >> a lot of great things happening for the country. thank you very much. >> reporter: as president trump attended easter services, mueller avoided questions outside his church. >> will you testify in front of congress? >> no comment. >> reporter: the first time he's spoke since being apounted special counsel. the president's attorney insisted it is acceptable to take information from a foreign country. >> i would say out of excess ov caution, don't do it. >> reporter: why mueller didn't bring charges against those in the june 2016 trump tower meeting. donald trump jr., jared kushner and trump campaign manager, paul manafort who met with a lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. >> they went to the meeting. that's conspiracy there. >> re

paula reid reports from the white house on this story. >> reporter: she entered the u.s.a tourist visa flying to new jersey on march 28th. two days later she was at mar-a-lago. she apparently bluffed her way through two check points and past several secret service agents before a receptionist realiz realized zhang didn't have a reason to be at the club. she was carrying two chinese passports one listing her age at 43, also four we will phones and a thumb drive full of malware which investigators say immediately corrupted their test computer. she was staying at the colony hotel two miles north of mar-a-lago. there investigators found a device to detect hidden cameras, nine usb drives rs five sim cards and more than $8,000 cash, most in $100 bills. wearing a blue prison jumpsuit she said little during her detention hearing. last week she told the journal she is an investment consultant in the u.s. on business. yesterday her public defender said zhang went to mar-a-lago to attend a charity event featuring the president's sister elizabeth. even produced a receipt for $20,000

paula reid has more. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. democrats are crossing the president's bright red line by seeking his personal tax returns and this comes amid a broader escalation of democratic investigations into all things trump. >> until such time as i'm not under audit i would not be inclined to do that. >> reporter: there is no policy to prevent anyone releasing tax returns while under out did but repeated his false claim when house democrats demanded his returns. >> i've been under audit for many years because the numbers are big and i guess when you have a name, you are audited. >> reporter: house ways and means chairman richard neal relies on a little known tax law to support miss request for six years of the president's tax returns as well as returns from eight other trump entities. neal insists the request is about policy, not politics. but not everyone agrees. >> this is not oversight. this is overreach and because they can't indict and impeach him they want to embarrass and harass him and those around him and america se

paula reid is with us. some say he's doing this to distract from the mueller report. >> reporter: good morning. the white house said this controversial idea is still on the table as the president ramps up his attacks against asylum seekers and doubles down on his campaign promise to restrict illegal immigration. sarah huckabee sanders says it was brought up to the staff level because of logistical concerns. they're once again looking at how to make it happen. but using detainees for what the president suggests is political retaliation would likely face immediate legal challenges, one that would be hard for the legal administration to surmount. this keeps immigration in the headlines. this enrages his rivals and galvanizes his base, all the more reason president trump would want to keep this on the table for the time being. >> yep, paula. there seems to be a strategy there. thank you very much. >>> congresswoman ilhan omar says her life is in danger. president trump said we will never forget the september 11

trump told paula reid he wanted to go in a tougher direction. later that day, the president with nielsen standing by his side said this. >> we want to have everything just perfected. we'll see what happens. but we may be going in a different -- you'll be seeing very soon. we may be going in a different direction. >> never a good sign when you're standing there. nielsen is the 12th person to leave the cabinet level position since president trump took office. customs and border protection commissioner kevin mcaleenan will serve as acting dhs chief but is not expected to be nominated as a permanent replacement in that job. >> whoever is nominate to be the next homeland security secretary will have to be approved by the senate. it is hard to get anything done on capitol hill these days, as shown in the new book "the hill to die on." politico reporter jake sherman and anna palmer wrote the book together. they have each covered capitol hill for nearly a decade and this book is the result of 26 months of reporting. they interviewed senators, house memb